We have customer owned equipment that is used in a manufacturing processes and we need to track which shop orders & lots that this piece of equipment was used in. This piece of equipment in not consumed as part of the manufacturing process and can be reused.
The piece of equipment can be either lot tracked or serial number tracked.
All of the processes that we’ve tried so far seem rather convoluted. Any brilliant thoughts on how to solve for this scenario?
Would it be possible to just add the equipment as a Tools? Then you can report Tool Usage from Shop Floor Workbench to log what shop orders the equipment was used in.
Only other option I can think of is a bit far fetched and it would only be an option from IFS Cloud 23R1 and onwards. There you could add the equipment as an inventory part (serial or lot/batch tracked) and add it as both a material line and as a disassembly component with ownership = customer owned. The parts can be listed both as a component and disassembly component in the BOM, but ownership = customer owned must be set manually or maybe using an event or other configuration. Now you can first issue this as a component to the shop order and then receive it back to stock as a disassembly component. If the parent is multilevel serial or lot/batch tracked you can also add the part to the correct parent using the Shop Order Tracked Structure.
One major limitation however is that a serial tracked component must have qty per assembly set to an integer. So you can’t say that you would need 0.5 piece of equipment per parent if that would be the case.
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